Overview
- Explores the digital surveillance revolution and how social media and smartphones have changed the landscape of public safety
- Draws on original data to examine how neighbourhood watch groups have developed in the Netherlands and how their actions contribute to lower crime levels
- Questions whether community crime prevention should be seen as a welcome civic instrument or a phenomenon adding to an undesirable culture of control
Part of the book series: Crime Prevention and Security Management (CPSM)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Neighbourhood Watch in the Netherlands: Introduction and Figures
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Front Matter
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To the Streets: Four Ethnographic Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Conclusions and Discussion
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Back Matter
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About this book
Drawing on data from 340 municipalities in the Netherlands as well as ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents original research on neighbourhood watch groups to illustrate how their actions contribute to collective efficacy and lower crime levels. Technological developments like social media and smartphones have changed the landscape of coproduction in public safety, and this book addresses the resultant issues involved with creating effective policy. While digital innovations and securitization have made neighbourhood watch groups effective, they have simultaneously increased the risk of vigilantism, and Lub reveals how stigmatization, ethnic profiling and excessive social control are very real issues, especially in suburban middle-class districts.Â
Crucially, this study raises questions about how the increasing popularity of community crime prevention in a digital age should be framed: as a welcome civic contribution to crime control, or as a social phenomenon adding to an undesirable culture of control. Criminologists, city officials, policy makers and anyone studying neighbourhood activism will find this a fascinating work on crime control.Â
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neighbourhood Watch in a Digital Age
Book Subtitle: Between Crime Control and Culture of Control
Authors: Vasco Lub
Series Title: Crime Prevention and Security Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67747-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67746-0Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88480-6Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67747-7Published: 18 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3513
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime Prevention, Crime and Society, Policing, Social Work and Community Development, Culture and Technology